[orca-list] Which distro for Orca 3.2 and audio and console

[Julien Claassen <julien mail upb de>]

Hello everyone!
  I'm really looking for Orca 3.2 now. I'm a Debian user so far and I have 
liked the distro very much. Still I am considering to switch now after all. 
But I have a few constraints:
1. Good console support with a nice repository of console apps (alpine, 
elinks, vim, lynx, all the scripting tools like mmv gawk,..., unrtf, wv-tools 
for converting docs, pdfto*... and more). Oh and a text-based way to easily 
install packages like aptitude.

2. I'm used to configuring a good deal of my system by hand, so this should 
not be discouraged.

3. Same goes for self-compiled kernels.

4. And a natural access to root logins. I've heard, that it was by default 
disapproved of in some distros, though snce they were mainly GUI at the time, 
I didn't pay too close attention.

5. a distro sensibly running without the need of a gUI environment or special 
GUI-daemons and what-not running in the background all the time.

  It would of course be even better, if I could use my currently running 
system to update to the new distro, but I'm sure I'll manage somehow. So this 
would just be an added bonus.
  Ok, this is rather a lot I might be asking and probably impossible. I 
haven't delved into al the distros, since these days there seem to be so 
many. So I'm rather relying on a few good experiences for a start to minimise 
the possible list of suspects. Perhaps you can still recommend a few things, 
that meet as many as possible of the features listed above and just tel me, 
where they don't meet the desired features. Then I can investigate, which of 
them are easily fixeable or not. :-)
  Thank you all for reading thus far!
  Kindest regards
           Julien

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